Interview with AERO founder Jerry Mintz by EduCoup author Bernard Moran: Me – So Jerry, in your own words – what is the alternative education resource organisation (AERO) all about? Jerry – AERO is the main networker of educational alternatives around the world. We help people who are looking for learner centred educations for their [...]
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Democratic School Governance
GOVERNANCE IN SCHOOLS is becoming an increasingly important issue, as educators begin to realize how crucial it is to empower the participants in any educational process. There are currently many hundreds of schools in the United States and other countries, both private and public, which operate with varying degrees of of student self-government. These take [...]
Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it Too (Part 4 of 7)
Why Have r and Reams of Highly Relevant Research Relative to Schools, Education and Learning Conducted Over a Full Century Been Consistently Deep-sixed or Permanently Shelved? To properly answer this question would take an entire book. It will be dealt with here very superficially, due to time and space limitations. To say that there has [...]
Demonstrating To Our Students that Failing Does Not Necessarily Mean Failure
Why is it that when we make a mistake or see a setback, many individuals feel as though the original goal we set out to accomplish is now a lost cause or possibly even a complete failure? Is it that what we wanted to achieve is now hopeless and no longer worth our time? Perhaps, [...]
Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it Too (Part 3 of 7)
An Odd Omission: Studies of Important Correlations Between Attendance Laws and Behavioral Science Are Absent From the Literature. Why Have Studies of These Crucial Direct Connections Not Been Conducted or Reported? Research scientists have studied just about everything imaginable with respect to humans and the wide variety of biological, social and other factors or causes [...]
Teaching that Promotes the “I Get it”
Why do we remember some lessons and forget others? Is it that some are perceived as more important, exciting, or possibly just easier to comprehend? Perhaps the answer has elements of all of those in its makeup; however I would suggest it is through true understanding. That is understanding rather than memorization. This is the [...]
Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it Too (Part 2 of 7)
TRYING TO HAVE OUR CAKE & EAT IT TOO: WHY COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IS ANTITHETICAL TO EDUCATION; HOW ARBITRARY AUTHORITY AFFECTS INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIORS & ENVIRONMENTS & WHY THOSE BEHAVIORS HAVEN’T BEEN PROPERLY STUDIED (BRIEF TENTATIVE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS POSED IN PART I.) Compulsory Attendance laws ARE the Problem 1. The humiliating frame of reference a child [...]
Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it too (Part 1 of 7)
TRYING TO HAVE OUR CAKE & EAT IT TOO: WHY COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IS ANTITHETICAL TO EDUCATION; HOW ARBITRARY AUTHORITY AFFECTS INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIORS & ENVIRONMENTS & WHY THOSE BEHAVIORS HAVEN’T BEEN PROPERLY STUDIED First the Troubling Questions and Controversial Issues for Discussion and Debate: There is one way and one way only to justify a law [...]
The Trouble with NAPLAN
NAPLAN stands for National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy. In 2008, the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) commenced in Australian schools. Every year, all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 ( children aged approximately 9,11,13,15 yrs ) are assessed on the same days using national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and [...]
